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- Articles and resources about government websites in the United Kingdom.
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- Anonymous claims responsibility for taking down government sites
- Home Office, Ministry of Justice and No 10 sites fully operational after apparent denial-of-service attack by hacking collective. guardian.co.uk, Sunday 8 April 2012. "A group of computer hackers have claimed responsibility for taking down the Home Office website, apparently in protest against government extradition and surveillance policies. Internet users were unable to fully access the department's homepage for several hours on Saturday night as a message on the site said the page was currently unavailable "due to a high volume of traffic"..."
Added: 12 April 2012;
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- Government Digital Service Design Principles
- "Welcome to the first draft of the Design Principles for GOV.UK. This is an 'alpha' draft — there’s lots more work to be done and many more resources to be added. These principles are intended to be ‘carrot not stick’. They’re not a list of bad things to be avoided, they’re a set of principles to inspire you, accompanied by examples which explain things further and code and resources which will make the principles easier to follow. We’d love to know what you think — will these principles and examples be useful for you? Please let us know via govuk-feedback@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk. Listed below are our design principles and examples of how we've used them so far. These build on, and add to, our original 7 digital principles. 1 Start with needs 2 Do less 3 Design with data 4 Do the hard work to make it simple 5 Iterate. Then iterate again. 6 Build for inclusion 7 Understand context 8 Build digital services, not websites 9 Be consistent, not uniform 10 Make things open: it makes things better..."
Added: 12 April 2012;
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- Better connected 2012: a briefing for the top management team
- Produced by: Socitm Insight, 27th March 2012. "With the world moving relentlessly towards digital delivery, the role and performance of the council website has become an issue for the top team. Socitm Insight's Better connected 2012 shows the best council websites to be providing a full range of easy-to-use services where customers can find information and complete fully online tasks like 'Check council tax balance' or 'Object to a planning application'..."
Added: 28 March 2012;
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- Socitm issues stark warning to councils: your websites are failing
- Posted by Gary Flood. Public Technology, 27 March 2012. "Warning to Town Hall leaders: make 'radical' changes to the way you govern and manage websites and adopt a new model for future development, or face declining into irrelevancy. In other words – the public doesn't care about your latest news. It wants to use your site to do something. That's the stark warning from local government ICT leadership group Socitm, whose Insight team's Better Connected 2012 analysis also says the world is moving 'relentlessly' towards digital delivery..."
Added: 28 March 2012;
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- The mobile question: Responsive Design
- by Colin Harrall. Government Digital Service, on 26 January 2012. "Directgov has had a mobile website since 2005. To put this into context, the top selling device that year was the Nokia 1110 (pictured below) – so as you can imagine we were quite limited with what we could achieve. Since then, mobile has exploded. Digital cameras, email, mp3 players, games, maps and more - mobile has been described as the remote control for your life. We're now seeing around 9% of visits to Directgov coming via a mobile device and we'll see over 2 million visits to the mobile site in January..."
Added: 27 March 2012;
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- Navigation a major weakness for hard to use council websites
- Socitm survey of local authority websites finds that despite overall improvement, councils remain insufficiently focused on top tasks which most interest users. Guardian Government Computing - Guardian Professional, Thursday 1 March 2012. "Too few council websites are sufficiently focused on the top tasks that are of most interest to their users, according to an annual report by Socitm..."
Added: 8 March 2012;
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- Second release of GOV.UK beta
- Cabinet Office, 28 February 2012. "The Government Digital Service (GDS) today launched phase two of the GOV.UK beta: 'Inside government'. The new area of the site is a space for people who are personally or professionally interested in the business of government to research how government works and what it is doing. It will be live for six weeks to test a shared publishing system, with the initial participation of 10 government departments..."
Added: 8 March 2012;
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- Inside Government – a few highlights
- by Neil Williams. Government Digital Service, 28 February 2012 "Today we have released part 2 of the GOV.UK beta – INSIDE GOVERNMENT. You can see our other post today for more on what this is all about and why it matters. But here, we’re going to take a quick canter through some of the features and our thinking behind them..."
Added: 1 March 2012;
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- Introducing the next phase of the GOV.UK beta
- by Neil Williams. Government Digital Service, 28 February 2012. "Today we unveil the next bit of the GOV.UK beta – INSIDE GOVERNMENT. This is the place where, in future, people who are personally or professionally interested in the business of government will be able to research how government works and see what it is doing. It’s also the live test of a shared publishing system which departments, agencies and other parts of the government machine can use to provide information about themselves and their activities. Ten departments are working with us to keep the site up to date for six weeks, after which we will pause and take stock of what we have learned..."
Added: 1 March 2012;
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- The Best and the Worst Part of Gov.uk Beta Is What You Don't See
- by Andrea Di Maio. Gartner, February 1, 2012. "The UK Government Digital Service created by Minister Maude under the leadership of Mike Bracken (ex-Guardian) just released a much-awaited beta version of its new unified web site for public sector, at www.gov.uk. This is still far from being a full replacement of the current government portal Directgov, but gives a pretty good idea of how things will develop. At face value, it doesn’t look better than many other government web sites, although it is said to provide more effective search capabilities. It provides categories to browse from, popular terms or services and then, for each category, a mixture of information people may be looking for and some services. The style of interaction does not look dissimilar from many other web sites, and it does not even provide the ability for people to tailor it to their needs (like redbridge i does for instance)..."
Added: 9 February 2012;
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- Software launched to help councils deal with new EU cookie law
- Posted by Rachel Fielding. Public Technology, 6 February 2012. "A new cookie control application has been launched to help public sector webmasters avoid falling foul of new EU data laws due to come into force in May. Cookie Control is a so-called 'cookie consent' application developed by digital communications agency CIVIC, designed to gain user consent where other solutions have failed..."
Added: 8 February 2012;
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- Introducing the beta of GOV.UK
- by Tom Loosemore. Government Digital Service, 31 January 2012. "... The beta of single domain was given the go-ahead in August 2011. There are three phases: - Public beta test of the site delivering the mainstream, citizen-facing aspects of GOV.UK. - Private beta test of a shared GOV.UK ‘corporate’ publishing platform, aimed at replacing most of the activity currently hosted on numerous departmental publishing environments. - A first draft of a GOV.UK 'Global Experience Language', to provide clear, consistent design, user-experience and brand clarity for those developing sites for the single GOV.UK domain. (see BBC.co.uk/gel for an example). Today we have released the first phase. The second is on track to be released in a few weeks, with the third set fair for the end of March..."
Added: 1 February 2012;
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- With GOV.UK, British government redefines the online government platform
- The U.K. moves from alpha.gov.uk to beta, by Alex Howard. O'Reilly Radar, 31 January 2012. "The British Government has launched a beta of its GOV.UK platform, testing a single domain for that could be used throughout government. The new single government domain will eventually replace Directgov, the UK government portal which launched back in 2004. GOV.UK is aimed squarely as delivering faster digital services to citizens through a much improved user interface at decreased cost..."
Added: 1 February 2012;
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- Benefits of government's £90.3m digital investment 'unclear'
- National Audit Office accuses government of failing to measure the benefits of Government Gateway, Directgov and Business.gov, by Gill Hitchcock. Guardian Professional, Friday 9 December 2011. "The government has failed to routinely measure the benefits of its main portals - the Government Gateway, Directgov and Business.gov - which together have cost £90.3m over the past three years, says the National Audit Office (NAO)..."
Added: 15 December 2011;
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- Digital Britain One: Shared infrastructure and services for government online
- National Audit Office, 9 December 2011. "The Government has not in general measured the benefits delivered by its two central internet services Directgov and Business.gov, and the infrastructure service Government Gateway, which together cost some £90 million a year..."
Added: 15 December 2011;
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